It must be hell to be in tech these days and have to adopt that relentlessly upbeat self-marketing language everywhere people can hear you.
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So positions that used to require autism got down-skilled so they could be filled by normies, and the culture had to change to accommodate them. It’s not that normies are inherently good at self-promotion, it’s that they’re not bringing anything else to the job.
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Applying to “America” broadly, there used to be swath of jobs for “minimally systematic” people who were capable of filling forms and implementing SOPs and stuff. On the one hand, a lot of that has been computerized.
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Asperger's is ~4X as common among men as among women. Pressures on Silicon Valley firms (especially larger ones) to hire and advance more women have effects on culture.
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Thus have I heard
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